Radioactive wild boars rampaging around Fukushima nuclear site

The animal population has been left unchecked since the disaster in 2011

Radioactive boars are running wild and breeding uncontrollably in the northern region of Japan contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

The animals have been devastating local agriculture and eating toxic, nuclear-contaminated food from around the accident site.

Mass graves and incinerators have been unable to cope with the quantity of boar corpses, shot by local hunters

A quarantine zone near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant where a 2011 meltdown leaked radioactive material into the surrounding countryside has been uninhabited by humans since the disaster.
However, boars remained in the area, unchecked by humans. Their precise number is unknown, but since 2014, the number of boars hunted has increased from 3,000 to 13,000, The Times reported.

The damage to local farms beyond the quarantine zone caused by the boars has correspondingly increased, amounting to ¥98 million (£620,000) since the accident.
The animals are now being killed faster than they can be buried.
Three mass graves, big enough for 600 boars each, are almost full in the city of Nihonmatsu, 35 miles from the nuclear plant. There is no more public land on which further mass graves can be dug.


Hunters have buried the carcasses - often weighing 100kg - in their gardens, but they are often dug up by wild dogs.
“Sooner or later, we’re going to have to ask local people to give us their land to use,” said Tsuneo Saito, a local hunter. “The city doesn’t own land which isn’t occupied by houses.”
In desperation, the authorities are resorting to using incinerators to get rid of the corpses, although it has been difficult to find the workers to chop up the remains into pieces small enough to feed into the furnaces.

In the city of Soma, a purpose-built incinerator has been developed, complete with filters to absorb any radioactive material released by its cremations. However, even this £1million operation can only dispose of three boars a day.
The animals were considered a local delicacy, but the nuclear contaminated boars are unfit for human consumption. Tests have shown the contaminated area remains dangerous, with levels of radiation 300 times the safe limit for humans.

The radiation levels are expected to remain toxic for at least another 30 years.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/radioactive-wild-boars-rampaging-fukushima-nuclear-site-japan-a6972361.html


Poor boars, they didn't cause the problem.

mmmmm...what a novelty...glow in the dark pork chops.....just the thing for those night time barbies......

Hmmm, could have a downside, you'd glow in the dark after eating them so they could see you when on a rampage

sassy wrote:Hmmm, could have a downside, you'd glow in the dark after eating them so they could see you when on a rampage

I have eaten WILD BLACK BOAR

Cd use 'em to charge batteries.

Boar-ing!

Lord Foul wrote:mmmmm...what a novelty...glow in the dark pork chops.....just the thing for those night time barbies......

I was wondering if we could end up with chops that cook themselves!

Lord Foul wrote:mmmmm...what a novelty...glow in the dark pork chops.....just the thing for those night time barbies......

OMG...now that was just far too FREAKY...I was thinking the same thing! 

Rather sad though; as astute as the Japanese were to get on top of the contamination and relocating the humans...seems rather irresponsible that they weren't doing all that was necessary when it came to the wild life!

THIS sad situation sounds like a good plot for a horror movie :


'Lord of the Flies 2:  Zombie Pigs of Fukushima!'

a real B movie

4EVER2 wrote:

Lord Foul wrote:mmmmm...what a novelty...glow in the dark pork chops.....just the thing for those night time barbies......

OMG...now that was just far too FREAKY...I was thinking the same thing! 

Rather sad though; as astute as the Japanese were to get on top of the contamination and relocating the humans...seems rather irresponsible that they weren't doing all that was necessary when it came to the wild life!

probably becasue your sense of humour is as twisted as mine....

Highly Possible ...hence the reason I use so many emotioncon's; trying to express what my quirky - snarky - twisted humor meant. 

Instead of having the reader  by my delivery!